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18
FEATURE
Harden up
and get
going
Inia Raumati
The more I ran, the more I wanted to give
an Ultra a go, but 100km or more seemed
like a completely unachievable task. Then
the Christchurch Earthquake happened. The
local Anglican Church was raising money for
disaster relief and I was looking at the North
Face 100km in the Blue Mountains Australia.
To this day I’m not too sure exactly how
it happened. But people started donating
money, I entered online and there was no
pulling out.
Three months later I was on the start line,
in the third wave, feeling completely out of
my depth. Rather than cheering and laughing
like the earlier starters, I was concerned that
the first aid station was over 25km away, and
they had given me a plastic bag to poop in.
The earliest kms were the toughest...when
you are so far from the finish that it seems
reasonable to pull out and the little voice in
your head says there is no shame in quitting.
But then I would pull alongside another
runner who would be going through exactly
the same thing and I would think, if they’re
not quitting neither am I.
It seemed like a long way to that first aid
station. But once there I set my target on the
next one. At 42.2km someone had put up a
sign mentioning that there was only 1 and
a half marathons to go. I started laughing
and so did the guy next to me. It turned out
neither of us had ever run further than a
marathon in our lives, and somehow this
was funny?
Most of the race from there on in gets pretty
blurry. I remember trying to hit the 3-sisters
staircase before dark and failing. The surreal
feeling of running alone in the pitch black